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The Madisonensis VOL. XXXVIII. HAMILTON, N. V., MAR. 13, 1906 NUMBER 16 REPORT OF DELEGATES NASHVILLE CONVENTION Men Who Attended Monster Meeting of Student Volunteers Address the Y. M. C. A. The delegates from Colgate to the Student Volunteer Convention at Nashville, Tennessee, took up the time of the Y. M. C. A. Meeting of last Friday evening with a report of what they saw and heard during their trip. The delegates from both college and semiary took part in the meeting, and described the events of the convention chronologically. Mr. Frederick Harding told briefly of the trip down, and his account was very interesting. His account commenced with the departure from Utica on Monday night, February 26th, and included the trip to Mammoth Cave and their arrival at Nashville. He said, in part, "We left Utica on the Southwestern Limited and from that time until we struck Nashville, we made known the name of Colgate as well as we could. I think every hamlet and village of any size along our route knows of Colgate, throughout New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. When we arrived at Buffalo, too late to catch the special train, and while we were waiting for our sleeper, we met other delegations from the University of Vermont Albany Medical, and a number of other colleges. The Cornell delegation got away from Buffalo ahead of us, but we overtook them before morning, and passed them. "Tuesday morning found us at Glasgow Junction, where we took the Mammoth Cave Railroad to Mammoth Cave, and there we saw a worse railroad than the Ontario and Western ever thought of being. There are thirty-two curves in six miles on that road, and they have the funniest boxed-in engine I ever saw. "We spent all of Tuesday night in the Cave.and, of our experiences there, I will not attempt to tell you. We reached Nashville the next day. '.'I will say just a few words of the trip back, which was to mc much more interesting. It meant much to us, because we had been to Nashville, and we had come under the influence of that great series of meetings, and come in touch with the deep, moving spirit there. When we left Nashville we started in, not on'y in our car but in every car on our train, to have some sort of meeting in which the delegates gave their impressions of Nashville, and it was indeed very helpful to listen to the different men and women tell what 'Nashville meant to them personally. It was found that seven occupants of our car had volunteered as foreign missionaries during those meetings at Nashville." Mr. A. I. Nasmith followed Mr. Harding with an account of the proceedings of the first day at Nashville. He said in part: "The first meeting was scheduled to be held at three o'clock- on Wednesday, and quite a while before that time you would see the great crowd of students hurrying toward the auditorium. "The convention was opened by J. R. Mott with scripture and prayer, and after that they sang 'All Hail the Power of Jesus Name.' You can imagine the effect of those five or six thousand delegates uniting in such a hymn. I had to bite my lips to keep in the emotions that came to mc, because of the feeling of power of all that body of young people, and be-, cause of what it meant for so many of us who were student volunteers to attend the convention. "On the platform was a flag with the Student Volunteer Motto, 'The Evangelization of the World in this Generation,' and all around the auditorium were streamers of the interwoven colors of the United States and Canada, while hanging from the center was the Crusaders flag, typifying what it means for

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The Madisonensis VOL. XXXVIII. HAMILTON, N. V., MAR. 13, 1906 NUMBER 16 REPORT OF DELEGATES NASHVILLE CONVENTION Men Who Attended Monster Meeting of Student Volunteers Address the Y. M. C. A. The delegates from Colgate to the Student Volunteer Convention at Nashville, Tennessee, took up the time of the Y. M. C. A. Meeting of last Friday evening with a report of what they saw and heard during their trip. The delegates from both college and semiary took part in the meeting, and described the events of the convention chronologically. Mr. Frederick Harding told briefly of the trip down, and his account was very interesting. His account commenced with the departure from Utica on Monday night, February 26th, and included the trip to Mammoth Cave and their arrival at Nashville. He said, in part, "We left Utica on the Southwestern Limited and from that time until we struck Nashville, we made known the name of Colgate as well as we could. I think every hamlet and village of any size along our route knows of Colgate, throughout New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. When we arrived at Buffalo, too late to catch the special train, and while we were waiting for our sleeper, we met other delegations from the University of Vermont Albany Medical, and a number of other colleges. The Cornell delegation got away from Buffalo ahead of us, but we overtook them before morning, and passed them. "Tuesday morning found us at Glasgow Junction, where we took the Mammoth Cave Railroad to Mammoth Cave, and there we saw a worse railroad than the Ontario and Western ever thought of being. There are thirty-two curves in six miles on that road, and they have the funniest boxed-in engine I ever saw. "We spent all of Tuesday night in the Cave.and, of our experiences there, I will not attempt to tell you. We reached Nashville the next day. '.'I will say just a few words of the trip back, which was to mc much more interesting. It meant much to us, because we had been to Nashville, and we had come under the influence of that great series of meetings, and come in touch with the deep, moving spirit there. When we left Nashville we started in, not on'y in our car but in every car on our train, to have some sort of meeting in which the delegates gave their impressions of Nashville, and it was indeed very helpful to listen to the different men and women tell what 'Nashville meant to them personally. It was found that seven occupants of our car had volunteered as foreign missionaries during those meetings at Nashville." Mr. A. I. Nasmith followed Mr. Harding with an account of the proceedings of the first day at Nashville. He said in part: "The first meeting was scheduled to be held at three o'clock- on Wednesday, and quite a while before that time you would see the great crowd of students hurrying toward the auditorium. "The convention was opened by J. R. Mott with scripture and prayer, and after that they sang 'All Hail the Power of Jesus Name.' You can imagine the effect of those five or six thousand delegates uniting in such a hymn. I had to bite my lips to keep in the emotions that came to mc, because of the feeling of power of all that body of young people, and be-, cause of what it meant for so many of us who were student volunteers to attend the convention. "On the platform was a flag with the Student Volunteer Motto, 'The Evangelization of the World in this Generation,' and all around the auditorium were streamers of the interwoven colors of the United States and Canada, while hanging from the center was the Crusaders flag, typifying what it means for